On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 20:54:31 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have two different Debian systems on my EEEPC -- stable and testing. > > Whenever testing installs a new kernel as a result of the routing update, > my grub/menu.list file gets rewritten. WHen it does this, it matches the > kernels I have in one Debian sysstem with the fie-system root I have in > the other. I have to hand-edit menu.list to make things right again, > using static boot stanzas in front of the AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST. > > (a) Is there any way I can stop this misbehaviour? > > (b) If I were to progress to grub2, where I gather I can't take control > of the boot process by editing menu.lst, is there some other way of > making sure things go right? I fear that one of these years, upgrading > to grub2 will become inevitable.
It is inevitable now; well, desirable at least. Just do it! Most people who have have used Grub 2 have never looked back. All this hand-editing will become a thing of the past. Debian has moved on. You are having problems with a legacy bootloader and cannot expect to get the support you require for it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120226211209.GE32189@desktop
